Charity (La Charité) / William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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- Accession Number
- 1895.96
- Title
- Charity (La Charité)
- Artist
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1825-1905
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1859
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.r.: W-BOUGUEREAU-
- Dimensions
- 139.38 cm x 112.4 cm x 6.35 cm (54 7/8 in. x 44 1/4 in. x 2 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- figure painting
- Physical Description
- Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
- Subject Matter
- Charity was a popular theme for many 19th-century artists and a subject, which Bouguereau revisited throughout his career. He studied the work of Renaissance masters and was greatly influenced by Classical and early Italian Renaissance art, drawing much of his subject matter from mythological, classical and biblical stories. In “Charity” the carefully arranged poses, highly finished surface, restrained yet rich palette, and dramatic use of light, which are hallmarks of Bouguereau's style, serve to idealize and ennoble the subject.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- family
- genres
- how we live
- landscapes (environments)
- modern and contemporary art
- natural landscapes
- offspring
- parents
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by family relationship
- plants
- relationships
- religious figures
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woods
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 955 x 1251
- File Size
- 73 KB
- Record
- 1895.96
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"Charity (La Charité); William-Adolphe Bouguereau." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1895.96/1895.96.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 22, 2024.
